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 </div><p></p>It rained that Sunday afternoon<br>
It rained heavy on my heart<br>
Flooded with confusion<br>
And a lot of questions<br>
That hasn’t been answered<br>
Up till this very day.
<p>I remember I was apt<br>
To notice that December,<br>
Your eyes were yellow<br>
It was not the normal hue<br>
Of an itched eye like we knew<br>
Something was wrong.</p>
<p>Each of our coursemates<br>
Raising up suggestions<br>
Persuading that you visited<br>
The hospital that evening<br>
But you were a bit druggy<br>
About the idea of visiting</p>
<p>We weren’t best of friends<br>
But Dennis, that pale night<br>
As I starred into your eyes<br>
A strange weight of compassion<br>
Came upon my whole being<br>
With most of those who raised<br>
Suggestions now gone,<br>
I wondered what next.</p>
<p>I wasn’t long you began to shiver<br>
You said your were cold<br>
And then hot, and cold again<br>
I was a seventeen year old<br>
Inexperienced young boy<br>
My only expertise was love.</p>
<p>I couldn’t take it anymore<br>
Each shivering jerk triggered<br>
The cores of my soul into turmoil<br>
For a moment I felt a strange aura<br>
Was that you Dennis, was that you?<br>
Quickly I packed few things and<br>
We were on our way to the hospital.</p>
<p>Spare me the details of that night<br>
Spare me Dennis, I am heartbroken<br>
We were thrown out the first hospital<br>
They couldn’t attend to you<br>
Because the only money we had<br>
Was my fare back to Lagos.<br>
If we saw this coming, we may<br>
Never have paid our school fees.</p>
<p>The second hospital admitted you<br>
I couldn’t sleep all through the night<br>
I had no one to call, you had one.<br>
That one that never visited you<br>
Even after I visited him and told him<br>
You needed him to come real quick<br>
He never did. I went back Dennis.<br>
Yes I did but without your consent<br>
I went, a young boy of seventeen<br>
With tears both for you and him.</p>
<p>Tears of pain knowing that<br>
Even in pain, some people<br>
Would rather watch you die<br>
Than lend a helping hand.<br>
People you called your own<br>
People you called family.<br>
Tears of knowing that I would<br>
Never see you again Dennis.<br>
And teart of joy remembering<br>
I shared the last moments of<br>
Your life cracking jokes with you<br>
There on that bed at 140 bedded</p>
<p>I remember you Dennis.</p>
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